Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War

Reexamining the Horrors of the Civil War Living Hell is the latest book by military historian Michael C. C. Adams, a professor emeritus of Northern Kentucky University. Adams has published a similarly themed book on World War II, as well as three other military tomes on various con...

A Bouquet for Gardner

Our tribute bouquet starts with several PELARGONIUMS: all but two of which are red, all but two of which are yellow, and all but two of which are green. The reader should be able to determine from this information just how many flowers are in our main bouquet

Yang-Mills, Gravity, and String Symmetries

In this work we use constructs from the dual space of the semi-direct product of the Virasoro algebra and the affine Lie algebra of a circle to write a theory of gravitation which is a natural analogue of Yang-Mills theory. The theory provides a relation between quadratic differentials in 1+1 dimensions and rank two symmetric tensors in higher dimensions as well as a covariant local Lagrangian for two dimensional gravity. The isotropy equations of coadjoint orbits are interpreted as Gauss law constraints for a field theory in two dimensions, which enables us to extend to higher dimensions. The theory has a Newtonian limit in any space-time dimension. Our approach introduces a novel relationship between string theories and 2D field theories that might be useful in defining dual theories. We briefly discuss how this gravitational field couples to fermions.Comment: To Appear in Phys. Lett. B, In memory of Emma Meuric

Pleasure Zones and Murder Boxes: Online Pornography and Violent Video-Games as Cultural Zones of Exception

New media formats and technologies raise questions about new-found abilities to indulge apparently limitless violent and sadistic curiosity within our culture. In this context the mainstreaming of sex and violence via mobile and screen media systems opens important questions about the degree to which these influences are harmful or indicative of deeper social problems. In this article we offer a preliminary analysis of the consequences of these new media zones, acknowledging their allure, excitement and everyday cultural position. In particular we focus on a distinctive hallmark of much online pornography and massively popular violent videogames - the offer of unchecked encounters with others who can be subordinated to violent and sexual desire. We suggest that a key implication of these zones of cultural exception, in which social rules can be more or less abandoned, is their role in further assisting denials of harm from the perspective of hyper-masculinist and militaristic social value systems

Martin Gardner and Marilyn vos Savant - A Not Always Easy Collaboration

A brief account of both the collaboration and sometimes disagreement between writers Martin Gardner and Marilyn vos Savant

Configuration Games

Farrell et al.\u27s contribution to Tribute to a Mathemagician . Related Articles: Games on Word Configurations can be found online at: http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol27/iss4/2 O\u27Beinre\u27s Mousetrap Game can be found online at: http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol47/iss2/2/ Puzzles and Games on Word Configurations can be found online at: http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol34/iss4/2